GOGASIAN GALLERY TO OPEN IN PARIS

ON 20.OCTOBER GAGOSIAN WILL INAUGURATE A NEW GALLERY IN PARIS. GAGOSIAN GALLERY OF PARIS IS LOCATED IN THE 8tH ARRONDISSEMENT, BETWEEN AVENUE MATIGNON AND THE CHAMPS ELYSEES, IN WHAT IN KNOWN AS THE 'TRIANGLE D'OR'. OCCUPYING 900 SQUARE METERS ON FOUR LEVELS, IT HAS OVER 350 SQUARE METERS DEDICATED TO PUBLIC EXHIBITION SPACE ON TWO FLOORS. THE SECOND FLOOR WILL BE USED AS A 'PROJECT SPACE' WHERE SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS WILL BE PRESENTED. ONE OF THE GALLERY'S OUTSTANDING FEATURES IT ITS RECTANGULAR MAIN GALLERY MEASURING 12 METERS BY 9 METERS WITH A CIRCA 5 METERS HIGH AND A SKYLIGHT OF 6.50 BY 3.50 METERS. THE GALLERY WAS DESIGNED BY THE PARIS BASED ARCHITECT JEAN-FRANCOIS BODIN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE LONDON BASED PRACTICE CARUSO ST JOHN. THE RENOVATION OS THE FORMER HOTEL PARTICULAR HAS TRANSFORMED THE SPACE INTO A STATE OF THE ART CONTEMPORARY GALLERY WHILE RETAINING ITS DISTINCTIVE PARISIAN CHARACTER. LARRY GAGOSIAN SAID: 'I LOVE THE CITY OF PARIS AND AM DELIGHTED TO BE OPENING A GALLERY HERE. IT IS AN HISTORICAL CAPITAL OF ART AND IS RECLAIMING ITS POSITION WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL ART CIRCUIT THROUGH ITS HIGH QUALITY MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AND A GROWING ART MARKET.' OPENED IN 1979 IN LOS ANGELES BY LARRY GAGOSIAN, GAGOSIAN GALLERY IS CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES. WITH THE ADDITION OF THE PARIS GALLERY, THERE ARE NOW NINE GALLERIES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING THREE IN NEW YORK, ONE IN BEVERLY HILLS, TWO IN LONDON, ONE IN ROME AND ONE IN ATHENS.